Thunderbolt 3 integrates USB 3.1, optional 100W power delivery, 5K ... By supporting USB 3.1 and jumping on the Type-C connector, Thunderbolt 3 may actually be the interconnect to usher in that ...

USB’s counterpart, Thunderbolt, now also uses the USB-C connector and is a superset that includes USB 3.1, DisplayPort 1.2, PCI Express Gen 3, and the Thunderbolt specs.

You can easily find laptops and desktop PCs packing USB-C port certified for Thunderbolt 4 or USB 4. But now the next ...

The first Mac with Thunderbolt 3 is now available, the non-Touch Bar 13-inch model from Apple’s new series of MacBook Pro laptops (see “New MacBook Pros Add Context-sensitive Touch Bar,” 27 October ...

You've probably seen another connection type floating about, though: Thunderbolt. If you're not familiar, here's what you need to know about the different varieties of Thunderbolt, and why any new ...

Those numbers need not concern you—just know that a Thunderbolt 5 is newer and faster than a Thunderbolt 4, and so on, but they work the same. What you need to know is how this differs from USB-C. For ...

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Thunderbolt 3 is becoming increasingly common in PCs, too, particularly with thin-and-light systems, and gaming-tailored laptops to which you can tether an external graphics card (eGPU), although TB3 ...

With a Thunderbolt 3 cable plugged into a Thunderbolt 3 port, which uses a USB-C port connector, users can see speeds of up to 40Gbps - a significant step up from USB 2.0's 480Mbps and Thunderbolt ...

Second, during the awkward Thunderbolt 3, USB 3.1, USB 3.2, Thunderbolt 4, and USB4 transition, you could wind up buying a USB-C cable that wouldn’t properly connect two devices with USB-C ports ...

Initial versions of Thunderbolt used a Mini DisplayPort as the physical connector. With the rise of USB-C, however, Intel switched to that style of connector as the hardware interface for Thunderbolt.